2.2.3

Writing Your Own Program

Test yourself

Writing Your Own Program

Coding a game app is a good way to start learning to program. Many free programs are available online for people to learn to code.

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Coding programs online

  • Scratch, Code Monster, Minecraft and Kodable are some examples of online coding programs.
  • These online coding programs often use blocks of code that are often very similar.
  • These programs have easy tutorials to follow.
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Design a ‘basketball’ game

  • An example task is to create a ‘basketball’ game for a mobile app.
  • You need to use computational thinking and create the algorithm first.
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Things to think about

  • When coding a game, there are a few things to think about:
    • What will the game look like?
    • How will someone control the game (the input)?
    • What will the person see when playing the game (the output)?
    • What are the different parts of the game?

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